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Yeah, and??? It jacks up the bill, but I like to have extra monitoring, fluids so I don't dehydrate, and something to drain out the urine from the fluids since I cannot feel the urge. I'm glad they are protecting my life and my baby's life should something go wrong. It's a risk some of us are willing to take. It's not like I didn't inform myself BEFORE I had an epidural inserted.

Answer by
Anonymous
at 2:07 PM on Sep. 18, 2010

I have had TWO epidurals, and the ONLY thing off your list that I had was continuous monitoring, which I had HOURS before the epidural...

So either I have some magical hospital where they don't need all those other things and every other hospital does - or your argument just went right out the window!